The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends has received reparations demands from the Greater Philadelphia Black Economic Development Conference. The Quakers were not unique; a general demand was ...

This paper examines the mutual definition of an evolving CNS and its protocultural environment which produces increasingly complex adaptive behavior, as well as the implications of the interrelationship for natural selection. ...

The basic question of this thesis asks how can one usefully understand criminality in American society today. The question arises from a concern that crime rates in the United States have been continually rising, indicating ...

An understanding of the causes of teacher militancy is essential to a truly constructive response to it. School boards, administrators, reformers, and the general public can and do make serious mistakes without such an ...

Symbolic systems arise from sense-data through the processes of categorization, discrimination, and transformation. The components of systems are concepts in some cases labeled by words, and the relationships between ...

The problem of the more effective education of black children has been receiving increasing attention over the past several years the energies of a great number of educators have been directed towards its solution. It ...

For this paper, the author distributed a questionnaire to 9th -12th graders at The St. Croix High School in St. Croix. The longer form, which included questions about jobs and work, was given to juniors and seniors, while ...

Children's race awareness and attitudes are not only interesting as an object of curiosity, but they are also "interesting" in the sense of ''important." This becomes clear if we admit three common-sense assertions (each ...

The acquisition of adult status receives ritualistic attention in most societies. As van Gennep has demonstrated, these rites of social puberty which may or may not be associated with physiological changes. In either case, ...

This study examines children's game playing behavior into a context other than scientific. It is a perpetual annoyance to read the standard sociology articles, ethnography, etc. and find that the authors rarely comment on ...

The author intends to demonstrate by one particular instance how the concept of an urban-rural continuum which reacts with the socio-economic characteristics of an area might prove useful. She investigated how the size and ...

In this paper, the authors attempted first a theoretical examination of work and theories concerning job motivation and job satisfaction. Secondly, in the empirical section, the authors sought to practically examine one ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the differences between long- and short-term grooms on and off the racetrack in terms of differences in life styles, roles, and social networks. This examination will consist of making ...

It is the purpose of this paper to examine the nature of community control as it has evolved in four schools in Philadelphia and Washington D.C., specifically to examine community control as an alternative within public ...

School boards are the primary policy development organs for urban school districts. School superintendents suggest innovations, advise on the competence of personnel,
and are the school systems' chief administrative ...

The subject of this paper is modern Japanese education. The case is an interesting one against which to flex Dreeban's theory, for Japan" is the first non-Western member of that international elite known as the ...

Of all the major theatres in which struggles must be fought along the lines of segregation, the least well developed is the residential neighborhood. The injustices of the market place have largely been settled, (with the ...